Utah television viewers looking forward to watch NBC's new sitcom ‘The New Normal’ on Salt Lake City's NBC affiliate KSL 5 will have to look elsewhere this September. KSL TV has announced it will not be broadcasting the show.

"From time to time we may struggle with content that crosses the line in one area or another," said Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL’s parent company. "The dialogue might be excessively rude and crude. The scenes may be too explicit or the characterizations might seem offensive. For our brand, this program feels inappropriate on several dimensions, especially during family viewing time."
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It may have shocked many movie and TV fans today to wake up to the news that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting a divorce. Cruise, of course, is one of today's leading actors with a long line of credits that include The Outsiders, Top Gun, and Mission: Impossible. Holmes gained notoriety on NBC's pop hit series, Dawson's Creek, following it up with movies like Batman Begins and the TV mini-series, The Kennedys.

Cruise, previously married to actresses Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman, made headline news several years ago when he appeared on Oprah! and, while expressing his new love for Holmes, jumped all over the Oprah couch. His exuberance has been debated for years ever since.
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Before Eugene Polley's invention, the world operated a television by walking to a TV set and pressing buttons to power on/off, adjust volume and change channels by hand. Polley, a 47-year engineer for Zenith Electronics and the inventor of the wireless remote control died Sunday of natural causes. The visionary was 96 years of age.
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CEO Glenn Britt of Time Warner Cable (TWC), told an analyst yesterday that if courts ruled in favor of allowing Aereo TV to continue with its business, it could pave the way for TWC to get out of paying retransmission-consent fees.
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